Utah copper mill & smelter, 1910 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Utah copper mill & smelter, 1910, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Utah copper mill & smelter
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Utah copper mill & smelter, 1910
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Utah's copper works in 1910 sat at the center of one of the state's largest industries, with ore from the Bingham Canyon district in the Oquirrh Mountains feeding concentrators and smelters that turned rock into metal for the national market. Utah had been a state only since 1896, and the copper towns that grew up around these plants drew miners and laborers from southern and eastern Europe, Greece, Japan, and Mexico, creating crowded, multilingual communities. Work in and around the mills was hot, dusty, and dangerous, and fumes from the smelting process were a constant concern for the people who lived downwind. Many residents would have known the district less by its name than by the smoke, the whistles marking shift changes, and the steady rumble of ore trains coming down the valley.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | west coast art co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Utah |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,683 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Utah copper mill & smelter |
| Reference | UT Utah copper mill & smelter 1910 |
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